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'''COLD AND ROUGH THE NORTH WIND BLOWS'''.  Irish, Air (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. P.W. Joyce ('''Ancient Irish Music''', 1873) notes: "The song to this air is common I believe to England, Ireland and Scotland. It has been long known in the south of Ireland, and is still printed as a street ballad. The English version originated with Tom D'Urfey, a well known song writer, who died in the beginning of the last century. The old version of the Irish song differs a good deal from it; and may be questioned which is the original. Both are however low in point of literary merit as well as of morality; and they are not worth disputing about. The air to which the song is sung in England is also claimed by Scotland; and it is published both in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, and in Wood's Songs of Scotland.  But the Irish air, which I think very graceful and beautiful, is entirely different; so that we may claim undisputed possession of it. I give it here as I learned it long ago, with one verse of the song. In the last line I have thought it better to substitute the words in italics for those in the original."
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''Cold and rough the north wind blows,''<br> 
''Black in the morning early,''<br>
''When all the fields were cover'd with snow,''<br>
''And winter came in severly.''<br>
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''As I was riding out one day,'' <br>
''I met a farmer's daughter,''<br>
''With cherry cheeks, and smiles most sweet,''<br>
''(By sweet Glangarriff's) water.''<br>
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Joyce ('''Ancient Irish Music'''), 1873; No. 55, p. 56. 
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